Parent Child 2008 - Getting it right for families?

The Family and Parenting Institute's international conference

What every family and parenting practitioner, researcher and policy maker needs to know about family wellbeing and the dynamics of family relationships

Thursday 13 and Friday 14 November 2008
Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster, London SW1P 3NZ

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DAY ONE PROGRAMME- Thursday 13 November 2008

WHAT'S GOING ON WITH FAMILIES?

09.00 Registration

09.30 Chair's opening remarks and welcome
Mary MacLeod OBE, Chief Executive, FPI

MORNING PLENARY SESSION
09.33 Video

09.40 Professor Alan Hayes, Director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies: Results from the longitudinal study of 10,000 Australian children and their families and the social policy context

10.10 Professor Kathleen Kiernan, Professor of Social Policy and Demography, University of York: Family settings and child well-being from birth to age 5 in the UK

10.35 Rt Hon Beverley Hughes MP, Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families

11:00 Professor Alan Hayes and Professor Kathleen Kiernan, questions and answers

11.15 Coffee break

11.45 Morning workshops

13.00-14.00 LUNCH including an opportunity to visit the exhibitions and take part in poster sessions.

14.00 Afternoon workshops

15.15 Tea break

AFTERNOON PLENARY SESSION

15.45 Chair: Professor Ann Phoenix, Co-Director, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London

15.50 Patricia M. Crittenden, PhD, Family Relations Institute, Miami, USA and Chairperson, International Association for the Study of Attachment (IASA) and author of 'Raising Parents: Attachment, Parenting, and Child Safety': Raising Parents: How to help troubled parents

16.20 Debate: Family wellbeing – what's government got to do with it? Led by four speakers including :

  • Professor Hugh Cunningham, Emeritus Professor of Social History, University of Kent and member of the DCSF assessment panel on the impact of commercialism on childhood ;
  • Carl HonorĂ©, Canadian journalist and author of 'In Praise of Slow' and 'Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-parenting' ;
  • Professor Lord Layard, Director, Wellbeing Programme, Centre for Economic Performance, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) ;
  • Virginia Morrow PhD, Reader in Childhood Studies, Faculty of Children and Health, Institute of Education, University of London

17.30 Close and drinks reception
All delegates are invited to a drinks reception following the close of conference.
Guests will hear an address by Maria Miller MP Shadow Minister for Families

 

DAY TWO PROGRAMME- Friday 14 November 2008

WHAT PARENTS WANT? WHAT CHILDREN NEED?

09.00 Registration

09.30 Chair's opening remarks and welcome
John Coleman OBE, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford and FPI Trustee

MORNING PLENARY SESSION
9.40 Honor Rhodes, Head of Development, FPI: On being brave and being different: the Parenting Funds

9.55 Professor Peter Stratton, Professor of Family Therapy, Leeds Family Therapy and Research Centre, University of Leeds: Creating good parents: A story and recommendations from research

10.25 Professor Susan Golombok, Professor of Family Research and Director of the Centre for Family Research, Cambridge University: All shapes and sizes: Does family structure matter for the psychological wellbeing of the child?

10.55-11.15 Panel with Prof Stratton and Prof Golombok

11.15 Coffee break

11.45 Morning workshops

13.00-14.00 LUNCH including an opportunity to visit the exhibitions and take part in poster sessions.

14.00 Afternoon workshops

15.15 Tea break

AFTERNOON PLENARY SESSION
15.45 Chair:Professor Jan Walker, Emeritus Professor of Family Policy, Newcastle University and Vice Chair FPI Board of Trustees

15.50 Professor Anne Power, Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE):Bringing up children in disadvantaged neighbourhoods.

16.20 Debate: - Housing, neighbourhoods and family relationships: what works and what doesn't. Led by four speakers including:

  • Dr Samantha Callan, independent research and policy consultant and author of the family breakdown sections of Breakdown Britain (2006) and Breakthrough Britain (2007) (CSJ)
  • Leon Feinstein MA, MSc, PhD, Professor of Education and Social Policy ,currently on secondment to Ministry of Justice, Trustee FPI
  • Dr. Michael Wagstaff, YouGov - presentation
  • Professor Anne Power,Professor of Social Policy, LSE
  • Further speakers to be confirmed.

 

17.20 CLOSING ADDRESS
17.30 Close of conference

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